When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

You may be gone but you're never over.

I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star